Toki Pona has only 120 words and uses only 14 letters. The grammar is simple and few words have more than two syllables.
That metaphorical process is at the heart of Toki Pona, the world's smallest language. While the Oxford English Dictionary contains a quarter of a million entries, and even Koko the gorilla communicates with over 1,000 gestures in American Sign Language, the total vocabulary of Toki Pona is a mere 123 words.
In the "toki Pona" language capital letters are used only for the name of a person and place, not the first word of each sentence. In the above mentioned letters first nine (p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w) are consonants and the last five (a, e, i, o and u) are vowels.
There's a language called Guugu Yimithirr (spoken in North Queensland, Australia) that doesn't have words like left and right or front and back. Its speakers always describe locations and directions using the Guugu Yimithirr words for north, south, east, and west.
The word “no” might be tiny, but it's pretty important. Whether you need a few additional words for your travels or you just enjoy telling people “no” in as many ways as possible, this small word packs a lot of usefulness.
For a few years, a language at the foot of the mighty Elbrus mountain in the Caucasus seemed to disprove the assumption that a language needs vowels. This language is Kabardian or East-Circassian. It is spoken by more than 500,000 people in the North Caucasus in Russia and by many more in other countries.
Arabic has over 12 million distinct words. To put this into context, the Oxford English Dictionary includes just over 170,000 words. As one example, Arabic has 23 words for love.
It has been estimated that the vocabulary of English includes roughly 1 million words (although most linguists would take that estimate with a chunk of salt, and some have said they wouldn't be surprised if it is off the mark by a quarter-million); that tally includes the myriad names of chemicals and other scientific ...
What is the Longest Word with no Vowels? Not including plurals, there is only one seven-letter word which has none of the five vowels. That word is nymphly, which is a rare variation of 'nymphlike'.
EUNOIA is the shortest word in English which has all five vowels.
Inuktitut is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.
Examples of an Extinct Language
There are currently 570 known extinct languages, with some notable examples being Eyak, Yana, Tunica and Tillamook – which are all mostly from Native American tribes.
It is the most straightforward, blunt way of doing it, while the casual way of saying “no” is いや (iya). In common parlance, most people say いえ (ie) rather than いいえ (iie) due to the awkward pause that the extra い (i) syllable adds. While both are correct, you'll find that more people will use the former.
While some people can remember their native language after years, even decades of not speaking or hearing it, many others begin to lose fluency after only 3-5 years.
Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for "yes" or "no". It also has only one fluent speaker left, something linguists are racing to change.
Studies on international adoptees have found that even nine-year-olds can almost completely forget their first language when they are removed from their country of birth. But in adults, the first language is unlikely to disappear entirely except in extreme circumstances.
The longest official geographical name in Australia is Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya. It has 26 letters and is a Pitjantjatjara word meaning "where the Devil urinates".
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When y forms a diphthong—two vowel sounds joined in one syllable to form one speech sound, such as the "oy" in toy, "ay" in day, and "ey" in monkey—it is also regarded as a vowel. Typically, y represents a consonant when it starts off a word or syllable, as in yard, lawyer, or beyond.